Northrop Frye Quotes
The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.
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The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I never wanted to be one of those 'Where are they now?' kids.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
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I am absolutely stunned how the Democrats were able to somehow say that the Republicans had a war on women... What was the war on women?
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The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America.
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
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I'm not a politician - it's not my cup of tea.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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I love Chanel.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
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It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, where Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
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Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.
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The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.
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Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
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I would not want to do one-episode television - that's just a brief encounter with your audience. The arc takes the actor into an arena where he can really stretch.
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The operations of the human mind are also controlled by words of power, formulas that become a focus of mental activity.
